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That is true a weak battery won't stop from booting but once you are in there cleaning and checking things it would be a great time to replace the battery which most of us forget to do until it dies. Yes it could be a motherboard. If it was my computer I would try another power supply or have a local computer store test it for you. A power supply can provide power to some parts of the m/b and not to other parts.

hi all
i cleaned the machine and checked all power fixings changed the m/b battery i re-seated all pci adapters i use i checked all the h/drives connectors un-plugged/re-plugged and so far every thing seems fine no booting issues or power issues but will update with any new occurrences thanks to all that gave advice

Bios not starting on power on/restart

Restart doesn't actually restart nor does "Save and Exit" when in BIOSHey,
I have a computer in the lounge which doesn't have an internet connection so the specs on my profile do NOT match the computer in question.
Basically, the computer has an AMD 6 Core processor, 8GB of DDR3 memory a single harddrive and a dvd drive, if I go into the bios and then choose...

General Discussion

Blue screen- windows starting logo , then restartHi Friends ,
My Windows 7 boot normal and after Windows Starting logo apear , blue screen appear quickly so much that i can't see what's message and restart
i tried repaid and fixmbr and fixboot , no way

BSOD Help and Support

BIOS Beeps after restarthave been playing battlefield 3 since came out.no problems.but 3 days i think after i installed 285.79 nvidia beta drivers after ~15 minutes of playing computer freezes.even curson doesnt move..i only can restart..but i only noticed freezes during the game..and not always but most of restarts are...

BSOD Help and Support

Bios Clock time changes after every Restart even after replacing BiosHi,
I've got an Acer Model As5742 Laptop with an i5 480M processor and 8 GB of good Ram. I'm running Win 7 Pro 64 Bit. It's only about 5 months old and this started about a month ago. I have no other problems. IE: Blue Screens or Lockups or anything, just the Bios clock changes to a random...

Hardware & Devices

HDD Stopping and Starting After BIOS FlashHi All.
I flashed my BIOS to try and fix a problem I was having with my computer not POSTing after a cold boot. Ever since, my secondary hard drive will start to spin-up and spin-down repeatedly, once Windows loads. It doesn't do that during POST, or if I'm in the BIOS, or anything; just when...